"[Masters] writes with astonishing awareness and clarity.It's inevitable that we will flash back to our own raucous college years, but Masters has a freshness and bite that forces us to take a slight step back, even as we laugh.Masters perfectly voices the simultaneous feeling of youth and exhaustion that all twenty-somethings face."   -- New York Daily News   [Masters] has captured the idiom and universe of his subjects perfectly." -- The Daily Beast Praise from the UK for Noughties "A lively, bittersweet hymn to student days. Funny and tender. Noughties  is a caustic, street-smart novel for our times." -- Financial Times "[ Noughties ] is intelligent and entertaining and, like early Martin Amis, it is an attempt to say something honest and even modest under a superficially flashy stylistic surface.

" -- The Sunday Times "This confident debut will infuriate you, make you laugh, trigger lots of nostalgia and leave you with a knowing smile" -- Time Out London "All-singing, all-dancing style, full of flourishes and wordplay.  A genuine comic talent." -- Daily Mail "Masters is expert on the rhythms and textures of the student experience." -- The Times Literary Supplement "A faultless prose style. Moments of brilliance. Noughties triumphs." -- Dazed and Confused.